neuroscience and neurobiology books

	Crustacean Experimental Systems in Neurobiology
	By: Konrad Wiese ISBN: 3540438092 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 18 November, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 2241811
	Medical Neuroscience , 2nd Edition
	By: K D Alloway, T C Pritchard ISBN: 1593772009 Publisher: Hayes Barton Press Release Date: 25 December, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 2431144
	Central Neural States Relating Sex and Pain (Advances in Systems Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology)
	By: Richard J. Bodnar, Kathryn Grace Commons, Donald W. Pfaff ISBN: 0801868270 Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press Release Date: 03 April, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 1909735
	Developmental Neuroscience (Developmental Psychopathology)(Volume 2)
	By: Donald J. Cohen, Dante Cicchetti ISBN: 047123737X Publisher: Wiley Release Date: 03 February, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 112335
	Bioimaging in Neurodegeneration (Contemporary Neuroscience)
	By: Patricia A. Broderick, David N. Rahni, Edwin H. Kolodny ISBN: 1588293912 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 15 April, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 2120883
	Molecular Neurobiology of Pain (Progress in Pain Research and Management, V. 9)
	By: David Borsook ISBN: 0931092191 Publisher: IASP Press Release Date: May, 1998 Bioscience book rank: 2006477
	The Wondering Brain: Thinking about Religion With and Beyond Cognitive Neuroscience
	By: Kelly Bulkeley ISBN: 0415938414 Publisher: Routledge Release Date: 01 November, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 1304196
	Neurobiology of Attention
	By: Laurent Itti, Geraint Rees, John K. Tsotsos ISBN: 0123757312 Publisher: Academic Press Release Date: 31 December, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 1116553	This volume gets most of its points for being comprehensive. The idea is nice: 109 (!) short chapters, each briefly summarizing a different research program related to attention. A great way to quickly get a bird's eye view of current attention research. It has some shortcomings, however, and they are hard for me to forgive, given the book's phenomenal cost. Some of the chapters, I feel, are a bit too brief, almost tossed off. Part of the problem may be that I read the book cover-to-cover, when really it's supposed be used as a kind of reference manual/ jumping-off-point-into-the-literature. Used this way, I imagine that the incompleteness of some chapters might be less bothersome. <br /> <br />A more personal criticism is that there are too many fMRI papers. I find it difficult to use fMRI data to constrain or arrive at mechanistic hypotheses about how brains actually work. I can't hold this against the editors (much), because the book's purpose is to represent current research comprehensively, and fMRI is big. Still, if you have as much trouble interpreting fMRI data as I do, it's another reason the book may afford you less than $150 dollars worth of enlightenment. <br /> <br />Finally, it may not be an ideal choice for students, despite a claim to the contrary on the back cover-- the papers can be very terse, and many assume background knowledge that initiates won't have. Still, there probably is not a more complete, up-to-date sampling of current attention research available between two covers, so it MAY be worth having despite it's flaws if you're a neurobiologist/psychologist working in a related field, and you can get someone else to pay for it.
	Cognitive Neuroscience, Custom Publication
	By: Marie T. Banich ISBN: 061873810X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Release Date: 03 April, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 1847769
	Computational Vision: Information Processing in Perception and Visual Behavior (Computational Neuroscience)
	By: Hanspeter A. Mallot, John S. Allen ISBN: 0262133814 Publisher: The MIT Press Release Date: 16 October, 2000 Bioscience book rank: 1324550